LAWCHA RESEARCH AND TRAVEL AWARDS 2003

1 - Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) Graduate Research Paper Award

The Labor and Working Class History Association is delighted to announce its third annual graduate research paper award competition. The award's purpose is to stimulate research in working class history and to recognize outstanding work by a young scholar in the field. The award includes a check for $500, a certificate, inclusion of the paper in the program of the North American Labor History Conference (NALHC) in Detroit, October 2003.

The Labour Movement and Fascism
Conference: 8 November 2003, School of Continuing Education, University of Leeds

Call for Papers

Plenary Speakers: Roger Griffin, Ken Lunn

A History of the Left in New Zealand

On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand, Pat Moloney and Kerry Taylor, Paperback, 192 pages, ISBN 1 877276 19 7, $39.95. Illustrated with historical photographs.

Curtis J. Evans. The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. 337 pp. Illustrations, chart, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8071-2695-0.

Reviewed for H-South by Randall M. Miller, Department of History, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia. October 2002.

A Yankee Deep in the Heart of Dixie

Socialism and Sexuality Seminar (2003)
Center for Millennial Studies--Boston University

Postponed from an earlier date, the fourth annual Socialism and Sexuality seminar will be hosted by the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, on Friday, April 25, 2003.

Frank Allaun who has died just short of his ninetieth birthday was the first and only President of the Working Class Movement Library.

He and Edmund Frow formed a friendship in the 1930's when Frank was looking after the Communist Party bookshop in Hanging Ditch and Eddie used to cycle to collect his Left Book Club monthly volumes which he then distributed among his workmates and the A.E.U. members.

A new book on Comintern
Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War
By David McKnight, Frank Cass & Co, London 2002

I am writing to alert you to my new book which I thought might interest you. The book uses little known archives from Comintern to give a scholarly explanation of the circumstances which lead to Cold War ‘witch hunts’ and accusations of treachery. In their opposition to these allegations, the Left and their liberal allies scorned the possibility that there could be any truth to the charges of espionage.

Call for Papers: Gender, Socialism and Globalization in Contemporary Vietnam and China

The theme of the North West Labour History journal for 2003 will be Women in the North. We invite contributions, covering the period from the late C18th to last week, which take a look at women as political, industrial, social, cultural and community activists. We would like to cover the broadest range of topics:- from suffragettes to punkettes, Clarion cyclists to sit-ins, Chartists to feminists, barmaids to MPs and so forth.

The Ambiguities of Work: Controlling Knowledge, Controlling Outcomes
A conference at the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware, Nov. 7-8, 2003

From Adam Smith and Karl Marx through Harry Braverman and Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., issues of knowledge and control over economic activity have been central to the fields of labor and business history. The famous aphorism attributed to Big Bill Haywood, "The boss's brains are under the workman's cap" captures these tensions, as do recent social science explorations of embedded and tacit knowledge.